jordan

English Thesaurus

1. an Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	asian country, asian nation,
definition	:	any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent (noun.location)

part holonym	:	amman, capital of jordan,
definition	:	the capital and largest city of Jordan (noun.location)

part holonym	:	akaba, al aqabah, aqaba,
definition	:	Jordan's port; located in southwestern Jordan on the Gulf of Aqaba (noun.location)

part holonym	:	az zarqa, zarqa,
definition	:	city in northwestern Jordan (noun.location)

part holonym	:	syrian desert,
definition	:	a desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia (noun.location)

part holonym	:	dead sea,
definition	:	a saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan; its surface in 1292 feet below sea level (noun.object)

part meronym	:	middle east, mideast, near east,
definition	:	the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century (noun.location)

part meronym	:	asia,
definition	:	the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations (noun.object)

member holonym	:	jordanian,
definition	:	a native or inhabitant of Jordan (noun.person)

member meronym	:	arab league,
definition	:	an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation (noun.group)

domain member region	:	al-asifa, al-fatah, fatah,
definition	:	a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups (noun.group)

domain member region	:	black september movement,
definition	:	a former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich killed 11 Israeli athletes (noun.group)

2. a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan (noun.object)

instance hypernym	:	river,
definition	:	a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) (noun.object)

part meronym	:	canaan, holy land, palestine, promised land,
definition	:	an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism (noun.location)

3. an Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea (noun.location)

derivation	:	jordanian,
definition	:	of or relating to or characteristic of Jordan or its people (adj.pert)

derivation	:	jordanian,
definition	:	of or relating to or characteristic of Jordan or its people (adj.pert)